Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36708

Οὗτος δὲ πόρρω τὴν κακῶν ἀκηδίαν
βάλλων δίδωσι τὴν θεοῦ θυμηδίαν.
Text source G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 245
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Niketas (12th c.) (chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, metropolites of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Psalter
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Celui-ci, jetant au loin le chagrin des malheurs,
donne la joie de Dieu.
Language
French
Source(s)
G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 244
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 221r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography

Secondary

G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65 (n. 4)
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s) [36710] οὑτο(ς) δὲ πορρ(...) την κακ(...) ακη(...) [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 172v)
(2 verses)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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